Ambivalent Sexism at Home and at Work: How Attitudes Toward Women in Relationships Foster Exclusion in the Public Sphere

Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cikara, Mina ^a   Lee, Tiane L ^a   Fiske, Susan T ^a   Glick, Peter ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Exclusion; Sexism; Social hierarchy; System justification; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920441783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320916.003.018     Document Type: Chapter

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